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  • October 17, 2025
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I have someone who is set as an editor, but she doesn’t have the ability to edit the form associated with the base and can’t delete columns from the base.  These seem like some basic functions and editor should have and I’m trying to figure out if I did something wrong or if creators/admin would be the only ones to be able to do those sorts of edits.  It may have been this way all along and I just never realized it until yesterday.

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ScottWorld
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  • October 17, 2025

@tzuhouse 

Those are functions that only creators & owners have.

You can see the full list of permissions on this page:
Airtable Permissions Overview

Hope this helps!

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Mike_AutomaticN
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Exactly as mentioned by ​@ScottWorld.

Is funny because one would think “editors” can “edit” the base/forms. But editors can only edit values within records :D -not the schema itself.
 

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ScottWorld
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  • October 18, 2025

@tzuhouse There actually is a way for your editors to create forms in Airtable, which may be what you were thinking of earlier.

As ​@Mike_AutomaticN said above, editors can edit “data”, but they can’t change the actual base itself.

However, there is one significant exception to this, which is that if you give your editors full access to your entire base at the data layer (instead of just giving them access to your interfaces), then your editors are allowed to create/modify/delete views.

Form views are the “old way” of creating forms, which Airtable has stopped supporting… but they still work for now.

So, your users could actually create forms by creating form views (instead of the new forms which are in interfaces).

However, note that if you give your editors full access to your entire base at the data layer, they will be able to view all of the data in your entire base.

Interfaces act as a security layer where you can prevent users from seeing all the data in your base.

To learn more about the different permissions of the different user types, you can check out this article: Airtable Permissions Overview

p.s. Alternatively, remember that you can allow any user to create forms with Fillout’s advanced forms for Airtable, which offers hundreds of features that you can’t get with Airtable’s forms, including the ability to update Airtable records using a formcreate custom PDF files from a form submissionaccept payments on formspre-fetch dynamic data from an Airtable record, display Airtable lookup fields on forms, create new linked records on a form add a login page to your form, and much more.

Hope this helps!

If you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld